Special Episode: How To Be A Smarter Consumer Of Legal News
Serious Trouble
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The Problem With Sentence in Federal Court
In federal court, sentencing works very differently across the country in federal and state courts. The statutory maximums are designed to be fairly high but it's rare for them to actually be what the person actually gets sentenced to. So this is particularly a problem when you have cases with multiple counts. In states like California that have what's called determinative sentencing where it's kind of setYou're going to get a low, medium or high sentence in that range.
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